Batty is home and blogging. She’s fuzzy, she says, but improving.

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.” Bhagavad Gita, the sacred Hindu epic recalled by J. Robert Oppenheimer while viewing the first nuclear explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July …

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I finally found a feed display I could work with easily. You have to know which feed you want to take, and it only allows one, but that’s good enough for me. It comes from a site called Biz/ed out of England. It’s pretty self-explanatory: select the “How can I include the content on my …

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I’m reading Clarke’s Against All Enemies. Most everybody knows all the headline-grabbing info in it, but here’s an anecdote that doesn’t have any political impact but is pretty funny. In 1993 the Kuwaitis managed to foil an assassination attempt against former President Bush, and the perpetrators admitting being Iraqi intelligence agents. As retaliation, a plan …

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Keep Batty in your thoughts. Check Jon’s place for up-to-the-minute details. The doctors don’t think it’s too serious, but they kept her overnight.

Who knows a good script to add news headlines down there on the left side of this page? Presumably it would pick up RSS feeds from a preselected news source, but I could then change the source to one I’d rather use. Anybody care about seeing news stories (with links) on the side? So far …

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Ha! Take that, all you Mainlanders! Honolulu voted sexiest city in U.S.! Unfortunately, we ain’t so good at meeting new prospects, so come here for honeymoons or trysts, but forget finding new romance. Hell, I coulda told them that. In related news, the Westin Maui has hired a Director of Romance. Yessiree bob, we take …

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It’s a miracle!

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